page_title: Southport
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Southport / Landmarks / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: The Scarisbrick Hotel, situated on Lord Street in Southport, Merseyside, England.
context_page_description: Southport is a large seaside town in Merseyside, England. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 90,336, making it the eleventh most populous settlement in North West England.
  Southport lies on the Irish Sea coast and is fringed to the north by the Ribble estuary. The town is 16.7 miles north of Liverpool and 14.8 miles southwest of Preston. It is the most northern town within the Liverpool City Region.
  Historically part of Lancashire, the town was founded in 1792 when William Sutton, an innkeeper from Churchtown, built a bathing house at what is now the south end of Lord Street. At that time, the area, known as South Hawes, was sparsely populated and dominated by sand dunes. At the turn of the 19th century, the area became popular with tourists due to the easy access from the nearby Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The rapid growth of Southport largely coincided with the Industrial Revolution and the Victorian era. Town attractions include Southport Pier, the second longest seaside pleasure pier in the British Isles, and Lord Street, an elegant tree-lined shopping street.
  Extensive sand dunes stretch for several miles from Woodvale to Birkdale, the south of the town.
context_section_description: Southport has many unique buildings and features, many of which are privately owned Victorian villas and houses and the town centre shops are of architectural interest. The most notable buildings, gardens and places of architectural interest are:
  Lakeside Miniature Railway
  Southport Pier, formerly home of the Southport Pier Tramway
  Marine Way Bridge
  Lord Street
  Southport Model Railway Village
  Southport Town Gardens
  Kings Gardens
  Wellington Terrace, Lord Street
  Promenade Hospital, renovated as luxury flats and renamed Marine Gate Mansions
  Ribble Building, built as a railway station then adapted for use as a bus station, part of the site was redeveloped as a supermarket and the remainder converted to a hotel and 24hr gym
  Scarisbrick Hotel
  Smedley Hydro (A former Victorian Hydropathic Health Spa, now under ownership of the Home Office for the UK's Birth, Deaths and Marriages)
  Botanic Gardens, previous home of the only local history museum in Southport; closed by Sefton Council in 2011
  Hesketh Park
  Park Crescent, Hesketh Park No.29 has one of the oldest existing residential garages in the UK dating from about 1899, although both house and garage have been converted to flats.
  Rosefield Hall on Hesketh Road, built 1908, former home of Maurice de Forest and used as a hospital during World War II
  Kew Gardens (Southport District General Hospital now occupies most of the site)
  Meols Hall
  Round House
  Wayfarers Arcade
  Atkinson Art Gallery & Library
  Arts Centre & Town Hall
  St Cuthbert's Church
  St George's United Reformed Church, Lord Street
  Emmanuel Parish Church, Cambridge Road, which has an organ, installed in 1914, built by Harrisons of Durham
  Holy Trinity Church, founded before 1898
  Queen Victoria Statue – originally moved from the Town Hall Gardens to Nevill Street junction to the Promenade and again to the pedestrianised side of Nevill Street. 
  Also of architectural interest, but not extant, are:
  Cannon Cinema (Lord Street) (demolished and replaced with the Vincent Hotel that opened in 2008)
  Kingsway Night Club (demolished in 2010 following an arson attack)
  Open Air Baths (demolished 1990s, South Ocean Plaza complex now occupies the site)
  Steamport Museum (housed inside the former 27C locomotive shed, demolished in late 2000) site now occupied by Central 12 shopping complex.
  Palace Hotel, Birkdale (a large Victorian hotel, demolished in 1969)
  Southport General Infirmary (demolished in 2008–09 with only a wing of the infirmary remaining as it is being used for mental health services)
caption: Scarisbrick Hotel on Lord Street
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